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tom hunt

tom hunt

@tomhunt.bsky.social

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i make computers do things. worked on some menus for a couple of video games you might have heard of. made a couple of 3d puzzle things for touchy devices. i think we should improve society somewhat.

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tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 5h

a group of soldiers are standing in front of a sunset with the words " then everything changed when the fire nation attacked "

Alt: a group of soldiers are standing in front of a sunset with the words " then everything changed when the fire nation attacked "

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tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 6h

candy

pov shot of me eating a slice of this.
toffee tastes a little burnt. think i may have burnt the toffee a little bit. it's all good. still got the brittle sticky texture of toffee. chocolate and almonds all came out good. it's kinda like a fudge biscotti.

tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 6h

candy

an 8" x 8" square of freshly made and ready to eat almond roca

almond roca, 8" x 8" square, uncut

almond roca, 8" x 8" square, cut into slices like biscotti

tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 7h

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Common Raccoon (Procyon lotor)

Common Raccoon from N 51st St, Seattle, WA, US on March 7, 2023 at 08:00 AM by Mark Robinson

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tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 7h

trash pandas

tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 7h

the little trash bandits are all over the place here.

tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 7h

candy

chopped almonds in a baking dish lined with parchment paper covered with toffee, which is in turn covered with chocolate and topped with more chopped almonds. aka almond roca.

baking dish with almond roca covered in tin foil

baking dish with almond roca covered in tin foil in a refrigerator along with other refrigerated food items.

tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 7h

candy

tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 8h

ai is all a big video game that an alarmingly large number of people seem to think is real life and want other people to think is real life because it's also a really expensive video game and they haven't quite yet figured out how to make a profit from it.

tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 8h

my hot take is that all LLMs are a form of interactive entertainment, even the ones that claim to do some kind of productive work. in that they are entertaining the user with a simulated response based on their prompt. the user is made think they are chatting with someone, or something.

tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 8h

they both try to communicate to the user "you are very smart" as a means of encouraging them, just in different ways.

Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 10h

so we are going to see a lot of these “AI will replace video games!” takes ranging from content farmers to wishful-thinking CEOs. but I think this has it wrong: both AI-as-toy & systems-heavy video games are trying to get at the same human desire, & each have tradeoffs (imo the latter has fewer)

tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 8h

candy

slightly-cooled toffee mixture layer covered with chocolate chips

square baking dish containing chopped almonds topped with hot toffee topped with chocolate chips, covered in foil over the top of the dish

tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 8h

candy

hot sludgy brown toffee mixture poured on top of some almonds in a square baking dish lined with parchment paper

tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 9h

everything is turning brown

candy thermometer reading 275. butter-sugar mixture is a light brown color.

tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 9h

candy

tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 11h

candy

a candy thermometer affixed to the edge of a small saucepan heating up a mixture of butter and sugar on low heat. it is currently reading about 150 degrees Fahrenheit.

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 15h

It's not lost on me that the part of the White House we are destroying is the part that has to do with women's history in the White House.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing.

(📸 Getty Images)

A picture of the garden in front of the east wing of the White House. A mix of colorful flowers and small trees

tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 14h

on weed

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 15h

tumultuous business

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 15h

When the bubble bursts I am going on the warpath

Anyone who says Al data centers are a bubble has revealed themself to be a Class A idiot.
Avoid people like this at all costs if you care about your future wealth. Early days.

Daniel Newman
@danielne...• 21m
I'm too nice to call people Class A idiots. But he does it so well and is 100% correct.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 16h

Absolutely incredible. I'm convinced more and more that the guys who are super impressed by this are enjoying it the same way budgies enjoy watching NBA games

K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 16h

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 16h

he's still mad about the no kings protest

tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 17h

this is a glacially cold take for me.

i grew up hearing "no" a lot from my parents. i would get maybe 1-2 new games per year, usually at christmas or on my birthday.

we would rent nes and snes games from the video store (password saves ftw)

playing outside unsupervised was also more of a thing.

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 1d

The responses this post is getting, combined with the animating grievances of large swathes of politics, has convinced me we need a kind of society wide PSA about how Buying Things Is Optional.

You don’t think video games should cost $100? Don’t buy the videogame. Buying Things Is Optional.

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

AAA video games should cost $100 on launch. this would still be extremely cheap for the amount of time and enjoyment you get out of them! But an audience of whiny babies has kept them literally at the same price for *two decades* despite both general inflation *and* sector-specific costs rising

tom hunt @tomhunt.bsky.social · 17h

misappropriation of funds

a man in a black shirt and tie is writing on a notebook

Alt: a man in a black shirt and tie is writing on a notebook

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Naomi O'Leary @naomiohreally.bsky.social · 18h

"He’s been at war with us, but we didn’t acknowledge it because it seemed too preposterous and too strange," Polish foreign minister Radosław Sikorski said of Vladimir Putin last week.
www.irishtimes.com/world/europe...

From pigs’ heads to arson plots: how Russia’s hybrid war is sowing chaos across Europe

The trail from a Normandy pig farm has helped expose Russia’s campaign of sabotage across Europe aimed at inflaming division, spreading fear and weakeing support for Ukraine

www.irishtimes.com